Our client, a leading pharmaceutical company, is hiring a Laboratory Technician, on a contract basis.
Job ID #: 80318
Work Location:
Devens, MA – 100% on site
Education/Experience:
- Bachelors degree with 2 years’ experience with laboratory management.
- 1 year experience with MS Office Products: Outlook, Word, Excel
- Organizational Skills – creative thinking, analyzing issues, decision making, collaboration
- Fluency with Microsoft Office and Excel with excellent writing skills
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal are required
- Ability to work independently and effectively collaborate with teams
- Hands-on experience in a laboratory setting and basic knowledge of chemistry is a benefit
- Familiarity with relevant quality, regulatory and ICH guidelines highly desirable
Responsibilities:
- Independently execute routine lab operations activities including, but not limited to:
- Maintaining consumable and chemical ordering lists, as well as chemical inventory to ensure uninterrupted stocks are available to analytical labs
- Ordering non-routine lab supplies, familiarity with associated software (Arriba, RIO), working with outside departments including Finance
- Schedules equipment maintenance as needed and works with vendors/engineers (Waters, Sciex, Protein Simple, ThermoFisher) to keep instrumentation in proper working order in a timely manner
- Assist in lab organizational activities and lead a culture of continuous improvement
- Maintaining schedules for routine lab maintenance and cleaning, familiar with concepts and execution of 5S programs
- Coordinating shipping and staying updated on current international shipping policies, as well as receiving of packages–also maintain applicable shipping documentation (hard copy and e-Copy).
- Attending facilities and operations meetings
- Communicate progress and findings on an as-needed basis with supervisor and associated group members.
- Lead team meeting at least once a month: set agenda, communicate general and lab focused safety inspections, reporting to the group applicable updates regarding Safety, 5 S processes.